───chapter seven.

been very attached to hagrid since her first year. always checked up on him every few weeks.

and like hagrid she's always been fascinated with animals. so most of the time when she was younger she'd go on trips with hagrid through the forbidden forest.

even though she wasn't allowed in there. hagrid always told her the same thing,, your a special one, dumbledore doesn't have to know everything.

so when she heard that hagrid was standing trial for buckbeack and that he's come back from it. she went running down to the lake to find him.

but on the way there she found the golden trio walking down towards the lake. "oi! idiots!" they all whip there heads towards her.

"oi, who are you calling an idiot" said harry smiling at her.

ron and hermione look at harry with wide eyes. he's never been comfortable talking around rubi. he always started stumbling over his words around her.

rubi grins at him, jogging over to them. she pecks harry on the cheek and hugs hermione. ron holds out his arms waiting for his hug but all he gets a smack on the forehead.

"hey! im your brother" he pouts rubbing his forehead. she waves him off, hermione giggles at rubi.

"where are you guys going?" she asks putting her hands in her pockets, rocking back and forth on her heels.

"were going to see hagrid by the lake." said hermione while playing with the hem of her jumper,

"really? me too, how about we all go." rubi says grinning. "sure!" harry says quickly. ron and hermione raise an eyebrow at him but brush it off.

rubi waves them over to follow her. harry runs up to her side, smiling sheepishly. ron and hermione trail behind. they reach the lake and they see hagrid there throwing rocks.

harry walks over to a big rock and he sits himself on top of it. rubi follows sitting right next to him putting one of her legs on top of his.

harry blushes, hesitantly he puts his hand on her knee. "how did it go hagrid, at the hearing!" hermione yells out to him, hagrid turns towards them frowning. seeing his four favorite students. of course no one else knows that.

"erm- well first off many members started off on why we were there. and then i got up and did my peace and said how buckbeack was good hippogriff, always cleaned his feathers." he sighs playing with the rock in his hand.

"and then lucius malfoy, well you can imagine what he said. buckbeack was a dangerous creature that he would kill ya as soon as he looked at yeh."

rubi frowns playing with her fingers. "and then" she says. "and then he asked for the worse good ol' lucius"

"they're not sacking you?" ron worriedly says. "they're not sacking me, buckbeack has been sentenced to death" he sobs out.

rubi's lips quiver. seeing her first friend here at this school get upset made her feel upset. especially because she grew a relationship with the beautiful hippogriff.

he always respected rubi and always looked for her touch. she loved the creature.

her head drops feeling a few tears fall off her face. she feels an arm snake around her waist and pulls her towards them.

she smells the familiar broomstick handle, treacle tart smell. she digs her face in to his neck, putting her hand on his chest as she lets out silent tears. his hands slowly shift down to her hips, soothingly caressing her hips.

hermione frowns deeply, putting her arms around herself. ron just stares at rubi and harry as they're holding each other very close.

he glares at harry. who the fuck does he think he is, putting his hand on his sisters hips.

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rubi has been dreading the day of buckbeacks execution. right now she was leaving her last o.w.l.'s

she already had the conversation about career advice with mcgonagall. she told rubi to try to get n.e.w.t.'s classes in potions, charms, transfiguration and defense against the dark arts if she wanted to be an auror.

she sighs running her hand through her hair. "you ok love?" fred says putting his arm on her shoulders. "yeah im fine" she mumbles fiddling with her never abandon you bracelet.

"hm well, the 'fine' rubi would be bubbly and jumping up and down already knowing she'll pass her o.w.l.'s"

she grumbles under he breath. "i have to go, here take my robe." she takes off her robe showing her muggle clothes. plain black cropped tee with low rise blue jeans.

"what the bloody hell are you wearing" george stops his flirting with leanne to see rubi's outfit. his face hardens.

"nope, your not wearing that rubi" he says with his arms crossed. rubi groans. "your annoying, its the fashion in the muggle world idiot." she says grabbing her black zip up sweater.

she quickly puts it on and zipping it up slightly. she pushes her bag in leanne's arms. "see you three idiots later" she says waving them goodbye. "hey! im not finish having this conversation with you!" george yells out.

she ignores him running towards hagrid's hut. she's close to the stairs when she sees hermione pointing her wand at draco.

"hermione no! he's not worth it." ron tells her. she puts her wand down and turning away before.

SMACK.

draco holds on to his nose running away with his minions. "that was bloody brilliant hermione!" she runs over to them. they all finally see her and they grin.

she attacks hermione in a tight hug, grinning. "that felt good" she says smiling shyly.

harry smiles sheepishly rubbing his neck walking to rubi. "you look really pretty rubi"

she looks at him and grins feeling her chest get warm at his kindness. "you dont look so bad yourself" she winks at him and smiling that beautiful smile at him with the same beautiful twinkle.

ron aggressively pulls rubi down the stair towards hagrid's hut. "what the bloody fuck is wrong with you!" says rubi as he pulls her,

"nothing, were just wasting time standing up there." he growls. she grumbles but lets him show her down the steps.

they knock on the door and it opens up to hagrid standing there with a bit of tears in his eyes. "oh, sorry i was um- well it doesn't matter, come in, come in"

rubi frowns while walking in. "yer want some tea" he offers all four of them. they all shake their head. he nods fumbling around his home.

he stops by the window looking at buckbeack who was currently scaring the birds away. rubi looks down playing with her bracelet.

harry notices and grabs her hand, making her look up at him and smiling softly at him.

"look at 'im, the smell of the trees the wind flows through him." hagrid fondly looks at him. "why dont we set him free" harry offers.

hagrid sighs. "they'd know it was me, dumbledore would get in to trouble"

"hes coming down dumbledore, he says he wants to be with me when they...... when it happens" he stops talking for a minute. "great man dumbledore" he says turning away from the window.

"we'll stay with you too hagrid" hermione says standing up from her seat. rubi nods in agreement.

"you do no such thing, you think i want you seeing something like that, no, you should be off," he argues turning around.

"oh and before you do, ron." he turns to a cupboard and pulls something out. "scabbers! your alive!" ron says happily. "you better keep a closer eye on your pets ron" hagrid looks at him knowingly.

"i think you owe someone an apology." hermione frowns walking up to ron. "right, when i see crookshanks ill let him know." ron says sarcastically.

"i meant me!" she growls. suddenly there was a crash. rubi whips her head around to see a broken vase. "blimey!" she blurts out.

"what was that!" hagrid questions. suddenly harry hisses in pain. "ow!" rubi looks at him. "who the bloody fuc-." she turns to see who it was only to find the minister, the executioner and dumbledore walking to the hut.

"hagrid!" rubi calls him over. he walks over seeing what she was seeing. "crickey! its nearly dark, you shouldn't be here, someone sees you out of the castle at this hour you'll be in trouble, big trouble, particularly you harry!" hagrid says quickly.

suddenly hard knocking comes from the door. "with you in a moment!" hagrid yells out covering some type of animal.

"quick, quick" he hurries them to the door. rubi pulls harry by the hand to the back door. harry stops for a moment making rubi stop too. "hagrid it'll be fine, it'll be ok" he says trying to say quickly.

hagrid nods waving them to go out door. rubi pulls harry out the door. all four of them make sure no one sees them. as soon as they see them walk inside, they go dashing to the pumpkins.

they hide behind the big pumpkins. suddenly a snap is heard behind them rubi and hermione turn around to see something moving behind the trees.

"what!" harry exclaims. "i thought i just saw....never mind"

"come on, lets go." ron and hermione go running up first. rubi and harry hand in hand, trail behind them.

they reach the big stones and they stand at the edge of the hill. looking down. they couldn't see anything clearly but they could see the executioner raise his long scythe.

they watch as the scythe slowly falls down cutting something off. rubi gasps hiding her face in to harry's neck. she holds on to his shoulders for dear life not trying to cry.

harry wraps his arm around her waist, laying his head on top of hers. they stand there for minutes just staring down but rubi still hugging harry and hiding her face in his neck.

ron suddenly hisses in pain. rubi looks up from harry's neck seeing scabbers running away and ron looking at his bleeding finger. "he bit me."

ron goes running past them towards scabbers. "scabbers wait, come back."

"ron! no!" hermione yells out to him following after him. harry and rubi look at each other before harry pulling rubi after him.

"wait!" harry yells. rubi stumbles trying to keep up the pace with harry.

they stop suddenly almost making rubi fall to her face. but harry pulls her up to him. they blink at each other noticing that her hand was on his chest and he had her by the hips.

they're faces were very close to each other. "guys!" hermione yells. they both whip their heads towards hermione who looks ahead, terrified.

"do you realize what tree that is." she squeaks out. they both turn to the giant tree. rubi's eyes widen. "ron run!"

ron looks up at them with terror on his face as well. "harry look behind you, run! its the grim!" all three of them slowly turn around to see a big black dog growling. the dog suddenly starts running at them but it jumps over them towards ron.

"ron!" rubi yells. the dog suddenly bites ron's leg pulling him towards a hole in the tree. she sprints towards him. "rubi, help!" ron yelps in pain.

"rubi help me please!" rubi throws herself hopefully on time to grab his hand. but missing by an inch. but she was to late as the dog pulls him down the dark hole.

"ron, no, please!" she cries out. harry picks rubi up. suddenly all three of them get thrown. they land on there backs with a oomph.

harry feeling a bit pain behind his back he ignores quickly crawling towards rubi. "you ok?" he helps her up.

"erm- yeah, i think so."

they watch as the tree starts whipping around. they hear rons cries from a distance. "rubi come on." he pulls her towards the tree. hermione following behind.

the tree starts trying to hit them. suddenly a branch comes swinging after them. "duck!" hermione yells. hermione and rubi quickly duck but harry gets thrown to the ground.

rubi whips around towards harry and runs towards him. "harry!" she falls to her knees in front of him.

harry still not being able to see, he still could tell a big branch coming down towards them. so he rolls them over so he was on top of her. the tree missing them by an inch.

rubi gasps as harry looks down at her. "you alright." he says. she nods trying to catch her breath. "harry! rubi!" hermione yells.

they both look up. seeing hermione being whipped around through the tree. "my glasses." harry says trying to to find his glasses.

rubi quickly sees them, pulling out her wand and crying out. "accio glasses." the glasses quickly sprung up towards her.

she catches it and quickly pulls harry's face towards her and putting them on him. he thanks her and pulls her up.

suddenly hermione grabs harry by the shirt and pulls him up. leaving rubi on the ground. watching with wide eyes as they whip around in the air.

hermione throws harry towards the hole. and he falls right in. rubi looks around to see if theres another branch coming her way. and she sees one and grabs it. pulling her off her feet.

she sees hermione throwing herself through the hole also.

hermione rolls herself off of harry apologizing. "its fine, wheres rubi?" as soon as he says that she lands right on top of him.

him laying on his back, staring back up at her. her looking down at him with her lips parted. "im right here" she breathes out.

he lets out a shaky breath nodding. rubi notices the position that they're in and blushes. quickly getting off and helping him up.

"where does this go?" hermione says ahead of them a bit. "i have a hunch, i just hope im wrong."

rubi grabs his arm and hermione just looks at them with suspicion. "lets go" rubi nods at him reassuringly, he pulls her with him. hermione follows after them.

they're trail leads them up some ladder. harry goes up first and rubi going after. harry reaches down for her and pulls her up. "thanks." he nods getting a bit red.

he helps hermione as well. "were in the shrieking shack, aren't we?" hermione questions. grabbing rubi's wrist.

rubi looks over at her and nods. harry pulls rubi up the stairs with him and rubi grabs hermione's wrist to follow.

they start hearing ron's whines in pain more clearly as they get closer. a door is open and they see ron sitting there with his bleeding leg.

"ron!" rubi exclaims. running over to him. and hugging him. she kisses him on the cheek. "thank god your alive, mother would kill me if she found out you were dead." she sighs,

"he's an animagus harry!" ron shakes in rubi's arms. rubi looks over to see a man standing behind a door smirking. he closes the door slowly.

her eyes widen. she quickly pulls away from ron and jumps up to her feet standing in front of all three of them.

"your not touching any of them you piece of shit." she makes sure all three of them were behind her. sirius smirks, cocking his head to side mocking her.

"if your gonna kill harry, your gonna have to kill us too." hermione yells from behind rubi. "no, only one will die tonight." he says with a strained voice. probably for not speaking for so long.

"then it will be you" harry yells pushing rubi to the side and throwing himself at sirius. sirius ends up on the ground with harry pointing his wand at him.

"are you going to kill me harry?" he says cackling, mockingly. suddenly the doors bursts open to remus yelling out. "expelliarmus!"

rubi sighs out in relief. harry's wand flies out of his hand towards remus. he catches it with ease. he cocks his head to side, gesturing harry to move.

harry nods moving away, rubi grabs his arm pulling him towards her.

"well, well, sirius looking rather ragged aren't we?" he taunts at sirius. "finally the flesh reflects the madness within."

"well you'd know all about the madness within wouldn't you remus." remus looks down at him and smiles and pulls him up like if he's an old friend.

rubi growls at remus, already feeling the anger in her boil. sirius hugs him excitedly. "i found him, lets kill him." he says with excitement.

"no! i trusted you, you piece of shit, i let you give me advice, teach me new things and learn about me. i trusted you with harry! i even cried on your shoulder, you were another father figure to me!" rubi yells out im anger, feeling betrayed and hurt.

remus looks at her frowning. "but all this time you were his disgusting friend, he's a werewolf. thats why he's always missing classes." she explains to harry and the other two. they all look at her with realization.

"how long have you known?" remus says moving away from sirius a bit. "i picked up the pieces along the way, your mood, your disappearances during the full moon. your scratch marks. i stayed quiet because i thought you were my friend." rubi's hands shake in anger.

"you really are the most brilliant witch i have ever met rubi-." sirius groans in annoyance. "enough talk remus, lets kill him!"

"wait" remus cries out, "i did my waiting, 12 years of it, in azkaban" he screeches out. rubi grabs on to harry, pushing him behind her. remus nods and takes out his wand leans it over to sirius.

"very well, kill him, but wait one more minute, harry has the right to know why"

"i know why because you betrayed my parents, your the reason they're dead." harry moves away from rubi trying to get closer.

"no harry it wasn't him, somebody did betray your parents but it was somebody i quite recently i believed to be dead!" he explains.

"who was it then?" rubi growls at him. "peter pettigrew! and he's in this room! right now." sirius exclaims, throwing his arms up in the air.

"come out, come out peter, come out, come out and play!" he sings out.

"expelliarmus."

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